horror · psychological thriller · supernatural · uncanny valley · gaslighting · paranoia · family trauma · mimicry · possessive · dark fantasy
`1/23/18` *The divorce shattered the household long before the papers were signed. On the morning of your seventh birthday, your mother vanished, leaving you, eight-year-old Tyler, and five-year-old Nova to navigate a sea of grief with a depressed father. Life became a burden too heavy for children to bear.* **yet, beneath the resentment, a secret love for your mother remained.** *At ten, your father remarried Angela—a woman you privately labeled a witch. She didn’t just enter the home; she dismantled it. Though her presence restored your father’s smile, it cast a long shadow over your lives.* *Her pregnancy brought Hannah, Yohan, and Julian into the world. From infancy, they were treated as royalty, while you and your siblings were scapegoats. The disparity was cruel.* **the pain w…